Adam Antolin: A Missing Flyweight From the UFC’s Roster — NorCal MMA

Unlike sports where participants have to dress up like a group of friends in matching Halloween costumes, mixed martial arts strips competitors down to the bare bones. As primal as MMA may be, the clarity of pecking order—true discovery of a place amongst the pack—becomes a troublesome terrain to traverse. A saturated and fragmented market […]

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